A place where beginners can participate, ask questions, and post their views. However, beginners typically ask a lot of questions about sources, tricks, books, and so on. In fact, all magicians are interested (or should be) in the provenance of tricks, ideas, and related matters. This department will service these needs.

In the book "Annotated Erdnase" which I like very much, Darwin Ortiz says P.192 that :"The Sachs'book marked the first publication of the now standard "revolution" or air-pressure turnover".
The problem is that Sachs' Sleight of Hand was published in 1877 and the sleight was already described in Hoffmann's Modern Magic published in 1876 P.45 as the Third Method for disclosing a discovered card.
The question is then:
When was first published this sleight?
Was it in Modern Magic?

This is the 4th edition, but the same trick is also in my 1996 reprint of what seems to be the original edition of 1829.

In the thread mentioned above Philippe Billot refers to a precedent in "Le Testament de Jrme Sharp" (1793), which has a trick where you control four selections to the top and basically do the air pressure turnover four times. The difference is you don't drop the pack - you jog the card over with the thumb and swipe your hand down so that the card flies off and lands face up on the table. It's more surefire than the method where you drop the pack, which I personally could never get to work consistently. See here (page 105; the trick starts on page 102):

I have spoken with a couple of magicians about this, and they shared that they could never get this move to work reliably. I can't either.

Also, I once read a variant where a deck is tossed along a bar and as it came to rest in a spread the top card flipped over. While this sounds like the job of an acrobatic type card, the method given was the air pressure.